Nathan Kimball

Nathan Kimball (22 November 1822-21 January 1898) was a Union Army Major-General during the American Civil War.

Biography
Nathan Kimball was born in Fredericksburg, Indiana in 1822, and he became a lawyer in Livonia in 1844. He later served as a US Army volunteers captain during the Mexican-American War, distinguishing himself at the Battle of Buena Vista. He launched a failed run for State Senate in 1847 and for the Electoral College in 1852, but he became a successful medical practicioner and joined the Republican Party. He commanded the 14th Indiana Infantry Regiment when the American Civil War broke out, seeing his first combat at the Battle of Cheat Mountain. Kimball later commanded a brigade at the First Battle of Kernstown during the 1862 Valley Campaign, taking over the wounded James Shields' division and leading it to victory over the Confederate general Stonewall Jackson. His brigade lost 600 men killed or wounded at the Battle of Antietam later that year, and he was wounded in the thigh at the Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862. In 1863, he took command of a division in XVI Corps in Mississippi, moving it to Arkansas and fighting in the Camden Expedition. In 1864, he commanded a brigade under William T. Sherman during the Atlanta Campaign, and he served as a division commander at the Battle of Franklin and the Battle of Nashville in December 1864. After the war, he served as State Treasurer of Indiana and in the State House as a Republican, and he served as Postmaster of Ogden, Utah from 1879 until his death in 1898.